Pygeos

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* Added support for Python 3.11 binary wheels (458).

* Dropped support for Python 3.6 (458).

* Binary wheels now include GEOS 3.10.4 (458).

* Fixed unittests for GEOS 3.11 (458).

* Only use the 'fast' path in to/from_shapely when using conda (459).


**Acknowledgments**

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Casper van der Wel
* Joris Van den Bossche

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**Distribution**

* All binary wheels now have GEOS 3.10.3. See https://github.com/libgeos/geos/blob/3.10/NEWS
for the changes (454).

**Bug fixes**

* Fixed the ``to_shapely`` and ``from_shapely`` functions for compatibility
with the upcoming Shapely 2.0 release (452)


**Acknowledgments**

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Casper van der Wel
* Joris Van den Bossche
* Mike Taves

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**Distribution**

* Distribute binary wheels for Apple Silicon architecture
(arm64 and universal2) (427).
* Removed 32-bit architecture wheels for
Python 3.10 (427).
* All binary wheels now have GEOS 3.10.1. See https://github.com/libgeos/geos/blob/main/NEWS
for the changes (422).
* Linux x86_64 and i686 wheels are now built using the manylinux2014 image instead of manylinux2010 (445).

**Major enhancements**

* Added ``pygeos.dwithin`` for GEOS >= 3.10 (417).
* Added ``dwithin`` predicate to ``STRtree`` ``query`` and ``query_bulk`` methods
to find geometries within a search distance for GEOS >= 3.10 (425).
* Added GeoJSON input/output capabilities (``pygeos.from_geojson``,
``pygeos.to_geojson``) for GEOS >= 3.10 (413).
* Performance improvement in constructing LineStrings or LinearRings from
numpy arrays for GEOS >= 3.10 (436)

**API Changes**

* When constructing a linearring through ``pygeos.linearrings`` or a polygon through
``pygeos.polygons`` the ring is automatically closed when supplied with 3 coordinates
also when the first and last are already equal (431).

**Bug fixes**

* Raise ``GEOSException`` in the rare case when predicate evalution in ``STRtree.query``
errors. Previously, the exceptions were ignored silently and the geometry was added
to the result (as if the predicate returned ``True``) (432).
* Hide ``RuntimeWarning`` when using ``total_bounds`` on empty geometries, empty arrays,
or geometries with NaN coordinates (441).


**Acknowledgments**

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Brendan Ward
* Casper van der Wel
* Joris Van den Bossche

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**Distribution**

* Distribute binary wheels for Python 3.10 (416).
* All binary wheels now have GEOS 3.10.0. See https://github.com/libgeos/geos/blob/main/NEWS
for the changes (416).


**Major enhancements**

* Optionally output to a user-specified array (``out`` keyword argument) when constructing
geometries from ``indices`` (380).
* Added ``pygeos.empty`` to create a geometry array pre-filled with None or
with empty geometries (381).
* Added ``pygeos.force_2d`` and ``pygeos.force_3d`` to change the dimensionality of
the coordinates in a geometry (396).
* Added ``pygeos.testing.assert_geometries_equal`` (401).

**API Changes**

* The default behaviour of ``pygeos.set_precision`` is now to always return valid geometries.
Before, the default was ``preserve_topology=False`` which caused confusion because
it mapped to GEOS_PREC_NO_TOPO (the new 'pointwise').
At the same time, GEOS < 3.10 implementation was not entirely correct so that some geometries
did and some did not preserve topology with this mode. Now, the new ``mode`` argument controls
the behaviour and the ``preserve_topology`` argument is deprecated (410).
* When constructing a linearring through ``pygeos.linearrings`` or a polygon through
``pygeos.polygons`` now a ``ValueError`` is raised (instead of a ``GEOSException``)
if the ring contains less than 4 coordinates including ring closure (378).
* Removed deprecated ``normalize`` keyword argument in ``pygeos.line_locate_point`` and
``pygeos.line_interpolate_point`` (410).

**Bug fixes**

* Return True instead of False for LINEARRING geometries in ``is_closed`` (379).
* Fixed the WKB serialization of 3D empty points for GEOS >= 3.9.0 (392).
* Fixed the WKT serialization of single part 3D empty geometries for GEOS >= 3.9.0 (402).
* Fixed the WKT serialization of multipoints with empty points for GEOS >= 3.9.0 (392).
* Fixed a segfault when getting coordinates from empty points in GEOS 3.8.0 (415).

**Acknowledgments**

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Brendan Ward
* Casper van der Wel
* Joris Van den Bossche

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**Distribution**

Unittests are now included in the pygeos distribution. Run them by 1) installing
``pytest`` (or ``pygeos[test]``) and 2) invoking ``pytest --pyargs pygeos.tests``.

We started using a new tool for building binary wheels: ``cibuildwheel``. This
resulted into the following improvements in the distributed binary wheels:

* Windows binary wheels now contain mangled DLLs, which avoids conflicts
with other GEOS versions present on the system (a.k.a. 'DLL hell') (365).
* Windows binary wheels now contain the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Files
(msvcp140.dll) for usage on systems without the C++ redistributable (365).
* Linux x86_64 and i686 wheels are now built using the manylinux2010 image
instead of manylinux1 (365).
* Linux aarch64 wheels are now available for Python 3.9 (manylinux2014, 365).

**Bug fixes**

* Fixed operations on geometry arrays containing NULL instead of None.
These occur for instance by using ``numpy.empty_like`` (371)

**Acknowledgements**

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Brendan Ward
* Casper van der Wel
* Joris Van den Bossche

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**Bug fixes**

* Fixed the ``box`` and ``set_precision`` functions with numpy 1.21 (367).
* Fixed ``STRtree`` creation to allow querying the tree in a multi-threaded
context (361).

**Acknowledgements**

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Brendan Ward
* Casper van der Wel
* Joris Van den Bossche